Title
A Super-Sensitivity Photoacoustic Receiver System-on-Chip Based on Coherent Detection and Tracking
Abstract
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is becoming more attractive because it can obtain high-resolution and high-contrast images through merging the merits of optical and acoustic imaging. High sensitivity receiver is required in deep <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">in-vivo</i> PA imaging due to detecting weak and noisy ultrasound signal. A novel photoacoustic receiver system-on-chip (SoC) with coherent detection (CD) based on the early-and-late acquisition and tracking is developed and first fabricated. In this system, a weak PA signal with negative signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) can be clearly extracted when the tracking loop is locked to the input. Consequently, the output SNR of the receiver is significantly improved by about 29.9 dB than input one. For the system, a high dynamic range (DR) and high sensitivity analog front-end (AFE), a multiplier, a noise shaping (NS) successive-approximation (SAR) analog-to-digital convertor (ADC), a digital-to-analog convertor (DAC) and integrated digital circuits for the proposed system are implemented on-chip. Measurement results show that the receiver achieves 0.18 µVrms sensitivity at the depth of 1 cm with 1 mJ/cm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> laser output fluence. The contrast-to-noise (CNR) of the imaging is improved by about 22.2 dB. The area of the receiver is 5.71 mm <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">2</sup> , and the power consumption of each channel is about 28.8 mW with 1.8 V and 1 V power supply on the TSMC 65 nm CMOS process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TBCAS.2021.3091627
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Equipment Design,Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis,Signal-To-Noise Ratio,Spectrum Analysis
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1932-4545
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chuanshi Yang145.14
Zesheng Zheng233.15
Zhongyuan Fang335.59
Xiaoyan Tang400.34
Kai Tang5269.90
Siyu Liu6188.31
Liheng Lou701.01
Yuanjin Zheng832872.86